Summary Of Sold By Patricia Mccormick

Sold SAR “Sold” by Patricia McCormick is about a 13 year old young girl named Lakshmi that lived in Nepal. She lived with her mom, little sister and stepfather. Lakshmi’s stepfather gambles what very little money they have for their family to survive. Her stepfather said she now had to take a job in order to support her family, he introduced her to a well-looking stranger who tells her that she will be a maid in the city. Lakshmi gladly accepts only to later find out that she has been sold into prostitution. She was only 13 years old when her stepfather sold her to a brothel to help earn money. Mumtaz, an old woman, goes around ruling the brothel with cruelty. The old woman tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she pays off her family’s debt, but Mumtaz steals Lakshmi’s earning so that she can never leave. Then one day, as Lakshmi was getting ready to begin another day waiting for the American, she hears a banging on the door and a voice shouts, “Police!”. She and her friend, Anita, get scared and hide in a closet. Lakshmi recognizes the voice of the American and runs towards him, while her friend stays behind, and gives them her name and age.

Vignettes have good effects on the reader because it describes the setting of a scene, letting us form a picture in our mind, while also setting the mood in a vignette. And we also get to focus on that certain vignette. A conflict that changed Lakshmi, was vs. Harish. She sometimes found herself hating him for having schoolbooks and playmates and for being an ordinary boy. Lakshmi also hated him for letting herself be caught with one of his story books. At times, she also hated herself for hating him. This conflict changed her because Harish began teaching her english and and she learned new words and sentences. And as a result, that ended up freeing